Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a year for gimmicks and theory-clogged trivia in many fashionable art galleries, so one can only rejoice at a show that demonstrates anew the richness and ethical seriousness of painting. Such an exhibition-modest in scale, exceptional in quality-is now on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis: a group of 16 new pictures by Robert Motherwell...
Skyjacked is an unashamed throw back to the '40s, when such topical B features were ground out once a month. The nostalgic tendency now is to overvalue such celluloid trivia, but Skyjacked, at least, is a good deal more diverting than Airport...
...Such trivia are not redeemed by Morris' pious peroration, calling on "the human animal ... a simple tribal hunter by evolution," to indulge in a "magical return to intimacy." As any ethologist would warn Tribal Hunter Morris, man is the only animal to hunt without hunger, cropping his prey to extinction. ·Horace Judson
Deprived of the customary briefings and backgrounders, correspondents were forced to fall back on color and trivia, including the length of Mao's handshake with Nixon and the width of Chou En-lai's grins as portents of how the talks were going. Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. fumed about the low-key reception and grumbled that the sole Chinese concession seemed to be that "they did not make President Nixon stop for red lights." Buckley eventually suggested in print that some slight was also intended because Chou drank "to the health" of President Nixon instead...
...Machine. Once you are there, any drop mush that egests from your mental driftings is considered a literary event. And that is exactly what the journal part of this book is: drop mush. It is touching in a way, though, because what it mainly records is the mindless trivia imposed on the life of any American writer. Most of it consists in literary laundry lists (Should I write an introduction to his anthology? Should I go on this talk show?), caustic remarks about the New York literary mafia and London literary critics, vague and useless pronouncements on poetry ("In poetry...